Yes, you still need old-school NLP skills in "the age of ChatGPT"

Large Language Models have their strengths, but for many production problems, simpler techniques are faster, cheaper, and just as effective.

How it feels being an “old-school” computational linguist in 2024. Source: me and my pain.

In which I try not to sound like an old has-been (and end up doing exactly that)

Back when I started studying a masters of Computational Linguistics, no-one I knew of had even the faintest idea what Natural Language Processing (NLP) was. Not even me.¹ But I quickly r…